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Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Complaints about rising college costs are nothing new, but for students and parents calculating the price of college these days, the exercise has become a much [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo When American universities were founded in the Colonial days, they didn't have majors. They were designed for a small slice of the population, namely statesmen, lawyers [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Over the past several weeks, millions of young adults went off to college for the first time. My Facebook feed was filled with pictures of parents [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo With tuition bills arriving as the fall semester starts, students and parents might notice a line with a pretty big number next to it: student fees. [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Can you name the top three American universities that raised the most money last year? If Harvard topped your list, you're right. The nation's oldest institution [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo The news that broke Tuesday night that the Trump Administration would take a fresh look at affirmative action and potentially sue colleges and universities over admissions [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo A new study released last week by the Pew Research Center found that 58 percent of Republicans and right-leaning independents think colleges have a negative impact [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Some 20 years ago, I spent my summer in Washington, D.C., as an intern for the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Part of my [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo In two months, another crop of new high school graduates will head off to college. They will all depart the campuses at some point, but too [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Traditionally, May 1 is the end of the college search for high-school seniors. That's when deposits are due for a spot in next fall's freshmen class [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo The beginning of May was the deadline for the last of high-school seniors to make their final decision about where they're going to college next fall. [...]

In recent years, internships have gone from nice-to-have-on-a-résumé to absolutely critical. Employers today go on to hire about 50 percent of their interns as full-time workers, according to the Collegiate [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo The recent revelation that the University of Virginia kept a watch list of VIP applicants for special handling wasn't that surprising, given that prominent universities have [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo The spring semester is approaching its halfway point on college campuses, and for the graduating class of 2017 that means many seniors will be kicking their [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo About 40 percent of American colleges enroll 1,000 or fewer students. Another 40 percent enroll 1,000 to 5,000 students. These campuses, clustered mostly in the Northeast [...]

When the German engineering company Siemens Energy opened a gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, N.C., some 10,000 people showed up at a job fair for 800 positions. But fewer [...]

Byline: JEFFREY J. SELINGO When the German engineering company Siemens Energy opened a gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, N.C., some 10,000 people showed up at a job fair for [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo A few weeks ago, a young woman approached me after I gave a talk about my book on finding a job after college. She was in [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo For decades, it's been the best marketing pitch for college and university admissions offices: the so-called 'degree premium.' That's how much more a typical bachelor's degree [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo The recent presidential election has spurred plenty of comparisons of how U.S. public policy stacks up against our neighbors to the north, from health care to [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo American higher education has been seen for generations as an engine of opportunity to spur social mobility. But now social class is increasingly a roadblock to [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo For centuries, education has been seen as something that happens to young people. A college degree, in particular, is often considered a once-in-a-lifetime experience, typically completed [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo This Perspective has been updated. A fundamental transformation is underway in how we access education throughout our lives. Rather than plug into the formal structures of [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Predictions about higher education's future often result in two very different visions about what is next for colleges and universities. In one camp: those who paint [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Talk to any high school counselor advising students applying to a top college these days, and they will probably tell you the same thing: It's like [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo In the movie 'The Graduate,' the young character played by Dustin Hoffman is given a simple piece of job advice from his father's friend in a [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo The college admissions season is coming to a close and once again, the results demonstrate the growing divide in American higher education between the haves and [...]

Byline: Jeffrey J. Selingo Perhaps Donald Trump hasn't visited enough factories, auto repair shops or community colleges lately, because his comments Thursday to Republicans at a congressional retreat in West [...]